July 7. Invisible husbands ................ found

As we are waiting for another two tropical waves to pass, the guys decided that we girls deserve to have lunch ashore and took us 2 miles across the bay to "Skinny Legs" in Coral Harbor, a favorite hang out. We're in the land of the 10 dollar burger but we all admitted it was one of the better ones we've eaten. After lunch came the shopping as there are 5 little tourist stores attached to the restaurant. So Stacey and Manuela went shopping, and after 5 minutes we came back to see the guys, but they were not at the table anymore, "oh well, we'll just go into the next store". A few minutes later, we returned to the restaurant, but no Sid, Toni or Sailor the dog. So off into another store. After this one, we checked again, but still no Sid, Toni or Sailor. So we walked down to the dinghy dock to see if they were there but again no Sid, Toni or Sailor. We were done shopping and so we decided to have a drink at the bar while waiting for the boys to return. We sat on two tall bar stools by the guard rail next to the steps that lead from the open patio down to the horse shoe pit and sat there for at least thirty minutes waiting for our husbands. Still no Sid, Toni, nor sailor. We came to the conclusion that the boys went to get gas for the dinghy and not wanting to order another drink, we decided to walk towards them. The question now was, which path to take, the one leading along the water or the road. Since the one along the water was not paved we figured they would have to come back via road, to be able to pull the cart with heavy gas jug. So we walked in the heat and humidity and were sure that we probably would miss them as thy walked the other path. Of course we asked everybody who passed us if they had seen two guys, a dog pulling a cart with a red gas jug. Nope, nobody had seen our boys. Neither did the kid working at the gas station. From there we spotted a little Mini Market and since we came this far we decided to get some groceries before turning back, this time on the small path, again hoping to run into the boys. Nope, still no boys. Back at the restaurant again, Stacey walked down to the dinghy dock, I went back into the restaurant and checked out every table twice, and even walked over to the bar and looked at every customer twice, but no Sid, Toni or Sailor. Stacey came back and we're wondering where they could have gone. We didn't want to drink another drink, so Stacey saw a video store across the street and headed over there. While she went browsing in the store I stood guard on the terrace which was overlooking the restaurant, all 5 little stores, the dinghy dock and half a mile of the road, but still no sign of Sid, Toni and Sailor. Where could they be? It's been almost 2 hours since we've been looking for them and they couldn't just disappear. By now our feet were smoking and we were soaked from the humidity. Once more we go into the restaurant and this time I told Stacey to help me look. No Sid, Toni or Sailor as we walked from table to table and bar, then we approached the stairs, where we sat earlier, the one leading to the horse shoe pit and I discovered a table hidden right under the porch and who was sitting there? Sid, Toni and Sailor and had been sitting there all this time. They never believed us that we were done shopping after 10 minutes and had been looking for them for the last two hours. What happened was as we were in the first store, they were told that they had to leave the table as dogs are not allowed in the restaurant and so they moved downstairs, not telling us. But they enjoyed the all too many rum punches they HAD to drink while we girls shopped for the last 2 hours. Oh,yeah, they even saw us go by (our third store) and never let us know they were there. Obviously the rum punches made them invisible, while we were forced to shop!!!